Vincent Price
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| Vincent Price is best remembered for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of distinctive [[horror film]]s. His tall 6' 4" (1.93 m) stature and polished urbane manner made him something of an American counterpart to the older [[Boris Karloff]]. | Vincent Price is best remembered for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of distinctive [[horror film]]s. His tall 6' 4" (1.93 m) stature and polished urbane manner made him something of an American counterpart to the older [[Boris Karloff]]. | ||
| - | == Price, Corman and Poe == | + | == See also == |
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| - | In the 1960s, he had a number of low-budget successes with [[Roger Corman]] and [[American International Pictures]] (AIP) including the [[Edgar Allan Poe]] adaptations ''[[House of Usher (film)|House of Usher]]'' (1960), ''[[The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)|The Pit and the Pendulum]]'' (1961), ''[[Tales of Terror (film)|Tales of Terror]]'' (1962), ''[[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]'' (1963), ''[[The Masque of the Red Death (film)|The Masque of the Red Death]]'' (1964) and ''[[The Tomb of Ligeia]]'' (1965). | + | |
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| - | These were followed by numerous other roles throughout the 1960s in which he played characters in horror films who were often closely modeled on the Corman Poe films. He has also appeared in ''[[The Abominable Dr. Phibes]]'' (1971) and ''[[Theatre of Blood]]'' (1973), in which he created a series of campy, tongue-in-cheek villains. Price also recorded dramatic readings of Poe's [[short story|short stories]] and [[poem]]s, which were collected together with readings by [[Basil Rathbone]]. | + | |
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Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American film actor.
Vincent Price is best remembered for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of distinctive horror films. His tall 6' 4" (1.93 m) stature and polished urbane manner made him something of an American counterpart to the older Boris Karloff.
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